Ammophila nigrina F. MORAWITZ, 1889

Dollfuss, H., 2013, Revision of the Wasps Genus Ammophila KIRBY 1798 (Hymenoptera Apoidea Sphecidae) of the Palearctic Region and India, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1), pp. 383-564 : 462

Ammophila nigrina F. MORAWITZ

Ammophila nigrina F. MORAWITZ 1889: 128 , ♀. Holotype: ♀, China: Gansu: Sigu (ZIN), photograph examined, resurrected status. Regarded as synonym of A. campestris by KOHL 1906: 320 and subsequent authors.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: photograph of holotype ♀ (ZIN).

R e c o g n i t i o n The female of Ammophila nigrina is all black (unlike all other species with a petiolate submarginal cell III) and has the submarginal cell III petiolate, a glabrous propodeal enclosure and the gastral apex without metallic shine. Additionally, the supra-antennal lamellate projection is absent and the mesothoracic venter is not prominent anteriorly.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Body all black, without metallic shine; submarginal cell III petiolate. Propodeal enclosure glabrous, supra-antennal lamellate projection absent, mesothoracic venter anteriorly not prominent. Episternal sulcus extending to anteroventral margin of pleuron, arolia well developed and claws without basal tooth.

♀: 20 mm. Patch along mesopleural suture and propodeum posterlaterally covered with appressed silvery setae. Clypeal median lobe truncate, pronotal collar dorsally coriaceous, with slight shallow depression on the posterior margin. Scutum laterally delicately, densely striate with ill-defined medial furrow, scutellum longitudinally striate, propodeal enclosure obliquely striate and glabrous.

3: Unknown.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: China (GansuProvince).